We live in the fascinating and challenging world of science. It is a world that more and more over the ages, and especially in the 20th century has come to affect so much of our lives. It is involved with the way we travel, the homes we live in and the clothes we wear, how we become ill and how medicine can make us better, and has given us fantastic means of communicating and exploring.
The list of the inventations is rather long. We are on-lookers of great scientific achievements such as television and a computer. We can’t imagine our life withought a notebook or a radio. I’d like to speak in details about computers.
What is a computer?
A computer is an electronic device that stores information and allows changes in it through the use of instructions. A modern computer is capable of doing various tasks, like word processing and accounting. Personal computers are widely used but working on them requires some techniques.
A computer gives a lot of advantages to a user. The list of the advantages is rather long: computers give us access to the Internet- an international computer network. You can spread a lot of your free time surfing the Internet and get all sorts of information from it. You can enter the chat room with other Internet users and debate urgent problems on line. If you are connectable by e-mail, you can correspond with your own web page and place there information about yourself.
Today computers help people to do many things. Bankers use them to keep track of money. Telephone operators use them to put calls through. Without computers, weather forecasters would make more mistakes. Computers also help scientists to solve their problems. More than that computers help police to keep order in shops. Computers also help doctors to treat patients. Computers allow users to spend their free time and relax. But computers have some disadvantages. Computers can make people lazy. People waste their time when they play different games on a computer. People forget to go to the libraries, they often find information on the Internet. Wicked games can make people, especially children aggressive and stupid.
But in my view they have more advantages, that disadvantages. It’s an open secret that the computer is a source of education, entertainment and communication. And in my life the computer plays a very important role. It helps me to find information and relax. Though scientists have archived so much, scientific minds are still working at some urgent problems. I would like to mention some problems. One of them is finding and using alternative sources of energy. Scientists are also learning how to save and conserve energy. They have many problems with creating highly effective systems of communication. I can’t but mention one of the main problems. It is development of life on the planet.
I’d like to focus on the problem how to make our life longer and happier. It’s a well-known fact that nowadays people have a lot of artificial parts or implants inside them. There are some people who have problems with their health, especially with their hearts. And surgeons operate them on and put on implant inside them. Surgeons think that within 50 years one person in ten will have at least one artificial part inside.
Because science will be around us even more in the future, I think we-tomorrows adults must start learning today to be ready to take our places in this computerized, transistorized, antibiotic, nuclear and supersonic age!
Жил-был Носорог,
На других непохожий:
Носорог
С удивительно тонкой кожей.
В джунглях жил,
Среди хищных зверей,
А кожа была у бедняги
Действительно
Тоньше бумаги
И очень, очень чувствительна!
С виду он был
Носорог носорогом,
Что
Говорит
О многом...
Ноги как тумбы,
Чудовищная голова,
Рог на носу
Или даже, кажется, два!
Но
Хорошего носорога
Не и дубиной,
А он
Еле-еле мог
Стерпеть укус комариный;
Погладят его против
шерсти -
И это его огорчает...
Таких мелочей Носороги,
Как правило, не замечают!
Прут напролом носороги,
Не разбирая дороги!
Любят
Топтать и давить,
Мять и крушить
Носороги.
Кто на пути попадется -
Не глядя,
Раздавят в лепешку...
А этот
Чудак Носорог
Не мог раздавить и кошку!
Этот
Чудак Носорог
С кожею тонкой
Разных мышат-лягушат
И то обходил сторонкой!
— Я, - говорит, - не могу!
Пусть все
Как хотят поступают,
Но,
По-моему,
Им неприятно,
Когда на них
Наступают!
Толстокожие братья
Стали срамить Носорога:
— Это же черт знает что!
Носорог-недотрога!
— Вспомни, кто ты такой!
— Одумайся, тонкокожий!
— Ты ведь позоришь не только
себя -
Весь наш род Носорожий!..
— Ох, - отвечает чудак, -
Я с вами, братцы, не спорю!
Я просто не знаю,
Как
вашему горю!
Я понимаю вас,
Я ведь тоже
Зверь по натуре,
Но только я
Кое-что
Испытал на собственной шкуре...
Тем и окончился спор.
И чудак
С улыбкою кроткой
В чащу лесную ушел
Своей
Осторожной походкой.
Дружит он с птичкой Калау,
С братьями
Редко встречается
И,
Говоря между нами,
Не особенно огорчается!
There once was a rhinoceros,
Unlike other:
rhino
With a surprisingly thin skin.
In the jungle lived,
Among the beasts of prey,
And the skin was at the poor man
indeed
thinner paper
And it is very, very sensitive!
In appearance he was
Rhino Rhino,
what
speaks
A lot ...
Legs as tables,
Monstrous head,
Horn on the nose
Or even, it seems, two!
but
good rhino
Proshibesh and not a club,
And he
Barely able to
Endure mosquito bite;
Pat it against
wool -
And it saddens him ...
Such trifles Rhinos,
As a rule, do not notice!
Rod right through rhinos,
Dale!
love
Trample and crush,
Crush and destroy
Rhinos.
Who will fall on the way -
Without looking,
Crushed into a pancake ...
And this
Offbeat Rhino
Could not crush or cat!
this
Offbeat Rhino
With the skin thin
Different mice, frogs
And it went around a corner!
- I, - he says - I can not!
Let all
As they want coming in,
However,
In my opinion,
They are unpleasant,
When they
Come!
thick-skinned brothers
Rhino became ashamed:
- That's what the hell!
Rhino-touchy!
- Remember who you are!
- Come to its senses, thin-skinned!
- You're a disgrace not only
themselves -
All our family rhinoceros! ..
- Oh, - meets an eccentric -
I am with you, my friends, do not argue!
I just do not know
how
Help your grief!
I understand you,
I, too,
Beast by nature,
But I
Something
Experienced in their own skin ...
Themes and ended the dispute.
And crank
With a smile, gentle
In the thicket of the forest is gone
his
Cautious gait.
He is friends with a bird excrement,
With brothers
rare
And
Between ourselves,
Not particularly upset!
1 Where ?
B is she from
2 Is Ahmet Spanish?
B No, he . He’s Turkish.
C isn’t
3 Who are the girls with black hair?
B my sisters.
A She’s
4 your address?
B It’s 24 Green Road, London.
C What’s
5 your name?
B C-H-E-N-G
A How do you spell
6 is your sister?
B Fine. She’s in New York now.
B How
7 How much are books?
A those
8 you watch TV every day?
C Do
9 Where does Jack work?
B He in an office.
A works
10 My friend like meat.
B doesn’t
11 A Do Carlos and Maria have a car?
B . It’s red.
C Yes, they do
12 My sister BBC and CNN.
B watches
13 Anna and Jo are English, but husbands are French.
B their
14 My house is very big.
A parents’
15 A What’s that?
B It’s umbrella.
C an